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SYRINGB BOX.

No. 256,716. Patented Apr.18,1882.

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UNrrED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS F. MATTHEWS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SYRlNGE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,716, dated April 18, 1882.

Application filed February 17, 1882. (No model.)

of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Syringe Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its objeet to provide a box principally for holding a syringe and the difl'erent pipes or nozzles that accompany it, of such construction that the syringe can be placed in and removed from the box without interference with or removal of the portion of the box that holds the pipes.

To this end my invention consists in the improved box which I will now proceed to describe and claim. I

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l represents a perspective view of my improved box. Fig. 2 represents a similar view of the same in an inverted position. Fig. 3 represents asection of the box in the position shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 represents a section of the same in the position shown in Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, Arepresents my improved box, which is preferably rectangular in form, and is provided with two hinged covers, 0 G, forming two opposite sides of the box, and with an intermediate partition, D, converting the box into two compartments, E E, one having the cover 0 and the other the cover 0. The compartment E is of sufficient depth to hold the bulb and flexible tubes of an ordinary rubber syringe, F. The compartment E is provided with rests H H, adapted to support the difl'erent pipes or nozzles I, which usually accompany a syringe. The cover 0 of the compartment E is preferably provided with ribs or clamps J, adapted, when the, cover is shut down, to bear upon and hold in place the pipes I. The partition D has an aperture, K, to enable the bulb of the syringe to be seen through thecompartmentE,as shownin Fig.1.

It will be observed that the two covers and theintermediate partition convert the box into two independent receptacles, access to either of which canbehad independentiyofthe other, so that the-syringe may be removed from or replaced in its compartment without removing or interfering with the contents of the compartment E. The box is in this respect much more convenient than the ordinary syringe-box having a removable tray for the pipes, said tray having to be removed from the box before the syringe can be removed or replaced. and being liable to be mislaid while separated from the box. Said removable tray has an aperture to permit the bulb of the syringe to be viewed through the tray, the bulb partially projecting through said aperture. Unless the syringe is properly placed in the box, so that its bulb will coincide with the aperture, the tray cannot conveniently be placed in position. In my improved box the aperture in the partition constitutes a guide or indicator of the position in which the bulb should be laid, and the liability ofinconvenience abovenamed is entirely avoided.

The clamps J 011 the cover keep the pipes in place when the box is inverted, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

I claim- An invertiblesyringe-box having hinged covers forming two of its opposite sides, an intermediate fixed partition converting the box into two compartments, one of which is adapted to hold a syringe and the other a set of pipes therefor, clamps on one of the covers, adapted to hold the pipes in place in their compartment when said cover forms the bottom of the box, and an aperture in said partition, which serves as aguide by which to place a syringe in one compartment and permit a part of the syringe to be seen through the other compartment when the box is inverted, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 15th day of February, A. D. 1882.

THOMAS F. MATTHEWS.

Witnesses O. F. BROWN, A. L. WHITE. 

